Today’s Court reprimands the Davids, not Goliath. To be fair, Justice Kavanaugh suggests in his concurrence that the proper fight belongs between two Goliaths – the President and the Supreme Court.

British MPs took an important step in decriminalising abortion against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ abortion. Once the amended Crime and Policing Bill becomes law, people who ...

This is the conflict – a “no win” – in which progressives experience the Court’s current engagements with these issues.

And yet, a common question seems to be asked: in the face of authoritarian determinism, what can be saved of the democratic process? Until when does it make sense to hold on? For some historians, in ...

On 10 July 2025, the European Commission published the final version of its Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) – a voluntary rulebook developed by a group of independent experts and more ...

In this regard, it seems commonplace to remark that an association agreement concluded by the EU can only be suspended through unanimity in the Council (see e.g. here, here and here ). This assumption ...

With Like Company v Google, the first groundbreaking AI copyright case is now headed to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In this case, a Hungarian press publisher challenges Google ...

The non-penalization principle, as laid out in Article 31 of the Refugee Convention, reads as follows: ...

However, the Court drew an important distinction: the confiscation did not serve to “prevent the illicit acquisition of property through criminal” acts but to “preserve integrity in public office by ...

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat mit Urteil vom 15. Juli 2025 ( 2 BvR 508/21) eine Verfassungsbeschwerde der jemenitischen Familie Bin Ali Jaber zurückgewiesen. Diese hatte geltend gemacht, die Bundes ...

Im ersten Absatz des ersten Artikels des Grundgesetzes steht das bundesrepublikanische Glaubensbekenntnis: „Die Würde des ...

Als Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der universitären – insbesondere rechtswissenschaftlichen – Forschung und Lehre sowie der Justiz protestieren wir nachdrücklich gegen die Art und Weise, wie im Rahmen ...